TELECOMS

Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, and Giza Systems, a leading Egyptian systems integrator, announced on Tuesday last week a major new deal with Telecom Egypt, Egypt's incumbent telecommunications operator, to provide revenue-assurance and fraud-management systems.

Telecom Egypt has a fixed-line subscriber base of ten million subscribers, which makes it the largest fixed-line provider in the Middle East and Africa. This is the first time Telecom Egypt has implemented a revenue-assurance and fraud-management solution, and it will enable it to reduce potential revenue leakage and maximise revenues across both its fixed-line and mobile services. The implementation will form part of an overall solution with an Agilent AcceSS7 system and ATIO test-call generators.

Azure's end-to-end revenue-assurance product portfolio for current-generation networks includes Data Integrity, Wholesale and Interconnect Billing, International Settlements, Fraud Management, Mediation Management, Translation and Rating, and Event Integrity. The implementation for Telecom Egypt, is the result of a strategic partnership agreement between Azure and Giza Systems, aimed at providing revenue-assurance solutions for fixed and mobile operators across Africa and the Middle East.